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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
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ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.
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Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
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Brain, v. [as in to brain]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly to dispel a source of error in an opponent.
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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
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Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense.
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PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.
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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople, one who does.
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The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.
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EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
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CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do me?
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critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
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ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .
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pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
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